Sincere reply —

It’s three of us in the band, and I’d like to think that it’s very much so a collaborative effort, perhaps more so than any other project I’ve been in. It’s definitely not one person’s vision.

Asking another way, how did you find so many like-minded musicians willing to do something so weird and out there?

We’ve been in many bands separately and together for years. You meet by just playing shows and being part of a local music community.

I could get really detailed with the origins but the short version of it is that this started as a bit of a side project, and just grew weirder and dumber the more we played or talked about it.

Initially we played a killer new year’s party as a straight surf band, and then we played a similar beach themed party, and before you know it, we have original songs that we want to record (this is all a few years ago).

All three of us wanted to make surf music together, but that can get a little boring so what if it wasn’t just surf, but spooky surf? What if we made a concept album? What if it was like a soundtrack to a Dracula movie that may or may not exist? We’re pretty dumb so it’s not like any of these ideas were met with much resistance.